In your issue of Sunday, January 29, appeared an article concerning the death of a little boy under Christian Science treatment, in which it is stated that the doctors claimed that his life might have been saved if a physician had been called, and anti-toxine used.
If other demoninations never failed in what they consider their God-given means of reformation, or if there never were failures on the part of other systems of healing, the objection to the failures of Christian Scientists might be a valid one.
Naturalists
report that the young of partridges, bred in districts in England where a certain kind of clay abounds, suffer from a peculiar misfortune known as the "balling.
We speak of pagan lands, of paganism, as of things remote, not observable from either our front or back windows,—places to send missionaries to, and to support them by contributions in labors of which we are little conscious.
In looking over our exchanges we find columns of "resolutions of condolence," and in most cases they start with the stereotyped clause, "Whereas, it has pleased God," etc.
It might be well to state that Christian Scientists do not claim immunity from those things which ordinarily leave their impress upon the physical senses.
Christian Science inculcates the greatest compassion for suffering, for all kinds of suffering, physical, mental, and moral, but it also teaches that the most practical kind of sympathy for the sick man is that which leads him out of his suffering.
